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healthy as any other section of the Union.
Dr Morse farther tells us, that "storms and
hurricanes sometimes happen which are so vi.
olent as to overset vessels, demolish fence,
uproot trees and unroof buildings." These
remarks are equally true of almost every
climate of the giobe. The same geographer
tells us farther, that "snow falls in greater
quantities, lies longer, and the weather is
colder in the northern states than in the south-
ern; hence the climate of the former is more
agreeable in the winter, and that of the latter
in summer."—He further adds, thai frost wars
common to every month in the year except
July, in Pennsylvania. This might have been
true of some mountainous or interior sec-
tions of lhat state previous to the clearing of
the forests, but it conveys a very erroneous ;
idea of the general character of the climate
of the middle states at this lime. "There are
seldom more than four months of the year"

continues the Dr. "in which the weather is
agreeable without a fire." In Maryland we
should extend this period to six months.—
"North West winds are usually dry and cold.
North East winds bring rain."

'On the whole, it apprars,' still continues our
American Geographer, 'that the climate of this
division of the United States is a compound of
roost of the climates of the world. It has the
moisture of Ireland in the spring. The heat
of Africa in summer—the temperature of Its